He holds a hot poker next to them, to see if they move away.

他咀嚼烟草，并向蚯蚓吹气。

People said you'd have to pay them $100,000 to eat the worm.

他们说给10万美元才肯吃蚯蚓。

March's " worm moon" is named for signs of earthworms appearing in the warmer ground.

三月被称为“虫月”可能是为天气变暖和了，蚯蚓争相爬上地面。

So, the correct answer was b) as clever as an earthworm!

所以，正确答案是b)和蚯蚓一样聪明！

Its thirst assuaged, the Worm slithered aside, and vanished into a hole in the ground.

蚯蚓焦渴得到了缓解，慢慢地爬动到一旁，钻进一个地洞不了。

And, as if in a trance, hundreds of earthworms begin emerging from the soil.

如同中了迷幻魔法一样，成百上千蚯蚓从土壤中冒出来。

This is worm grunting, also called worm charming or fiddling.

这就是蚯蚓召唤术，也被称为蚯蚓吸引法则，或吸蚯大法。

Not good. We're having a dance competition with a worm. You got this, bro!

不太好。我们正在跟条蚯蚓比赛跳舞呢。你没问题，老弟！

Earthworms literally move the earth, and this is why farmers love them.

蚯蚓能松土，这就是农民喜欢它们。

But it's not just earthworms that deserve praise.

但值得表扬不仅仅是蚯蚓。

When the book was published, William was 37 years old.

这一切发生时， 达尔文一直在研究蚯蚓。

He eats flies, and worms, and bugs, and berries.

它吃苍蝇、蚯蚓、昆虫和浆果。

He was the first to realize how vitally important worms are to soil fertility.

他第一个发现蚯蚓对于肥沃土壤起着至关重要作用。

But some plants, and even whole ecosystems, are actually better off wormless.

但有些植物、甚至整个生态系，没有蚯蚓可能更好。

Unlike other usual North American earthworms, these highly active worms eat large amounts of humus.

与其他常北美蚯蚓不同，这些高度活跃蚯蚓吃大量腐殖质。

Its body is composed of more than one hundred rings, all joined together.

蚯蚓身体由一百多个彼此相连环节组成。

At first you cannot see that the worm has any head.

一眼看去, 蚯蚓似乎没有脑袋。

They burrow, and they look like earthworms or even snakes.

它们会挖洞，外形酷似蚯蚓，甚至是蛇。

And unlike common earthworms, the Mongolian death worm has a thick body which pulsates as it moves, egh.

与普通蚯蚓不一样，蒙古死亡蠕虫有着会随着移动而有规律收缩粗大身体。

He fills his billiard room with earthworms in pots, with glass covers.

他在台球室里放满了 玻璃罩罐子里蚯蚓。